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  • Ex-Congress MP Pramod Tiwari among 27 booked for beating up BJP Pratapgarh MP Sangam Lal Gupta in UP

    By PTI

    PRATAPGARH: BJP’s Pratapgarh MP Sangam Lal Gupta on Saturday accused former Congress MP Pramod Tiwari of leading a mob of his party workers to beat him up and his party’s activist during a social function in Sangipur block of the district.

    The issue prompted the police to register a case against 27 persons, including the senior Congress leader and his daughter.

    The alleged incident led Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya to order the district administration to take strict action in the incident, in which Gupta alleged his ‘kurta’ was also torn by the assailants.

    “Instructions have been issued for speedy and strict action in the incident of attack on BJP MP and national general secretary of BJP’s Pichhda Varg Morch Sangam Lal Gupta during the Gareeb Kalyan Mela in Sangipur block in Pratapgarh district,” said Maurya in a tweet.

    “Not even a single guilty person will be spared,” he added.

    Acting Superintendent of Police Prakash Dwivedi said that acting on the complaint lodged by the BJP MP, a case has been registered against 27 persons including Pramod Tiwari, his daughter Aradhana Misra and 50 unknown persons under various sections of the IPC and CLA.

    Citing the complaint lodged by Gupta, the acting Superintendent of Police said that as the BJP MP reached the venue of the Gareeb Kalyan Mela, Pramod Tiwari, his daughter and Congress MLA Aradhana Misra (who were already present at the venue) along with their supporters started raising slogans against him, and even assumed an attacking posture.

    As Sangipur SHO Tushardutt Tyagi rushed to save Gupta, Pramod Tiwari and his workers attacked him, Gupta said, adding that Congress MLA Misra along with her supporters hurled abuses at him, and pounced on him with the intention to kill him.

    The BJP MP added that the security personnel somehow managed to bring him out (from the attackers grip), but at the behest of Misra, her supporters started beating him using stones and sticks, due to which he and his supporters got injured.

    Around a dozen vehicles have been damaged, he claimed.

    Gupta told PTI that the incident happened when he and his party workers reached the ”mela” venue in Sangipur, where ex-Congress MP Tiwari was sitting on the dais.

    “Seeing me at the venue, Tiwari and his supporters first began hooting at me and our workers. Later, they grew violent and attacked us,” he said.

    “They beat me up too and tore my kurta,” he said.

    The former Congress MP could not be contacted for comments despite repeated attempts by PTI.

  • Day after flagging threat to life from liquor mafia, TV journo found dead; cops probe all angles

    By Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: A national news channel journalist was found dead in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh district late on Sunday night — just a day after he wrote to UP police about a threat to himself and his family from liquor mafia.

    Sulabh Srivastava, who worked with the ABP News channel in Pratapgarh district, was found dead near the Katra Crossing under Kotwali police station area between 10 pm and 11 pm.

    He was returning from Lalganj to Pratapgarh on his bike after media coverage. “Primary investigations suggest he died after his motorbike hit an electric pole/hand pump. But all other possible angles are being probed in the case,” Pratapgarh ASP East Surendra Dwivedi said on Monday.

    Just a day before the incident, Srivastava had written to the additional director general of police (ADG-Prayagraj Zone) about a threat to himself and his family from the liquor mafia due to his recent news reports on illicit liquor dens in Pratapgarh district.

    Meanwhile, Congress national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweeted over the incident. “Liquor mafia is on killing spree across the state, spanning from Pratapgarh to Aligarh, but UP government is silent. The state government was sleeping, despite a journalist having exposed the truth and alerting the authorities about threat to his life. Does the UP government have reply to the tears of journalist Sulabh Srivastava’s family,” she questioned through her tweets.

  • Days after reporting on liquor mafia, journalist dead in road crash at Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh

    By PTI
    PRATAPGARH: A 42-year-old news channel reporter died after his motorcycle rammed a pole near a brick kiln here, police said on Monday. The reporter, Sulabh Srivastava, recently ran a news story against the liquor mafia, and two days back, he had written to the Addl DGP (Prayagraj zone) Prem Prakash, seeking protection.

    Also, Addl SP Surendra Dwivedi said the crash took place on Sunday when Srivastava was returning from Asrahi village under the Lalganj police station area after reporting on an illegal arms manufacturing unit uncovered there.

    After the crash, Srivastava was taken to the district hospital, where doctors declared him dead, he said. The officer said police were probing various angles and the body of the deceased was sent for a post-mortem examination.

  • CM Gehlot approved the formation of 59 new Village Service Cooperative Societies in Rajasthan

    The Ashok Gehlot government of Rajasthan has approved the formation of 59 new village service cooperative societies in the state. These 59 new Village Service Cooperative Societies have been formed in gram panchayats of 17 districts of the state. About 30 thousand farmers are associated with them. Villagers have been demanding them for a long time. The farmers of these areas will benefit from the formation of new cooperative societies.

    Cooperative Registrar Muktanand Aggarwal informed that out of these 8 cooperative societies have been formed in Pratapgarh district and 7-7 in Banswara and Jaipur districts. At the same time 6 committees have been formed in Churu, 5 in Tonk, Sirohi and 4-4 in Bundi. Apart from these, 3-3 committees have been formed in Barmer, Rajsamand, Nagaur. While 2-2 in Bikaner and Chittorgarh and 1-1 new committee has been formed in Sikar, Jalore, Ajmer, Alwar and Jhunjhunu.

    Cooperative registrar Muktanand Agarwal says that every village panchayat in the state should have a village service cooperative society, steps are being taken continuously by the cooperative department. With the formation of village service cooperatives, the structure of cooperatives will be expanded at the gram panchayat level. With the formation of these new Village Service Cooperative Societies, farmers will get facilities like loan facility, fertilizer seed and e-friend in their Gram Panchayat itself.

    According to the Cooperative Registrar, the formation of cooperative societies will benefit the common people from the work being done by the cooperative society. At the same time, the member farmers associated with the cooperative committee will also get the benefit of the facilities being provided by the committee. At present there are more than 6 and a half thousand village service cooperative societies.